Word: sketch
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...cadets take a unit on the basic tactics of guerrilla warfare. Their June final has included questions like, "You are an infantry captain directed to command a combat patrol consisting of three rifle squads and two mortars. Your mission is to attack and seize the hamlet in the following sketch. State your plans." The sketch which follows contains areas marked "jungle," and a body of water labelled "Dukong river." The hamlet depicted in the sketch is protected by fortification marked "moat--sharpened stakes. Also included are miscellaneous data on the number of rifles and mortars which the enemy...
...decadent and dainty, the epitome of the late-Victorian dandyism that prized artificiality over nature. It is a pity that he never used mauve ink. Oscar Wilde once paid him the compliment of calling him "a monstrous orchid," and Beardsley, relishing his role, jotted on the back of one sketch proof...
...federal, state, and local relief programs with unintelligible letter codes--Operation Head Start, ABCD, or the BRA. He also talks about things that aren't changing so fast as one would like them to--crime and violence on the streets, unemployment, bad housing, discouraged people. Then into this quick sketch of the condition of Roxbury, Miller fits his own venture, the Banner...
...begins with a patronizing sketch of her mother's dim life-pious, faithful, impoverished, with only one book dedicated to her, and that "published at the author's expense." She had not wept for her father, and she told her sister that it would be "the same for Maman." Yet, on the night that her mother went under the knife, "I went home; I talked to Sartre; we played some Bartok. Suddenly, at eleven, an outburst of tears that almost degenerated into hysteria. Amazement...
Married. Lord Rothermere, 67, British press lord presiding over an $84 million publishing empire (London Daily Mail, Evening News, Daily Sketch); and Mary Murchison Ohrstrom, 35, Texas heiress and niece of Clint Murchison; he for the third time (his second wife later married author Ian Fleming, who had been named corespondent in Rothermere's divorce suit), she for the second; in London...